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Laurels Number Two

Twentieth Century Machine

1946
(American, 1920–2007)
published by

Laurels Gallery

America, 20th century
engraving, aquatint and offset color
Support: Original pasteboard portfolios. Inside folders of handmade paper and handprinting by Douglass Howell.
Sheet: 33.5 x 21 cm (13 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Image: 22.3 x 15.1 cm (8 3/4 x 5 15/16 in.)
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 1998.184.5
Edition: 60
Impression: 21
Location: not on view
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Description

Featuring two hybrid human-mechanical forms, Russell’s intimate, intricate print drew partial inspiration from The Future Eve, a 19th-century science fiction novel by Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle-Adam that popularized the term android.
Twentieth Century Machine

Twentieth Century Machine

1946

Alfred Russell, Laurels Gallery

(American, 1920–2007)
America, 20th century

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